cfp.english.upenn.edu

While trauma and narrative are older than human history, complex understandings of trauma are fairly recent.  In recent years trauma studies has become important to diverse fields.  Literary and cultural studies examine how narratives of trauma express political oppression, political conflict and symbolic forms for ethnic or national identity.  Narratives that testify to trauma may offer a healing or organizing response to pain, but may also inflict traumatic and disorganizing effects for both individuals and political communities.  Psychoanalysis examines the registration and fate of traumatic experience in the mind and body, as subject to processes of repression, dissociation, and foreclosure, as it also examines the fate of these processes in producing specific symptoms and effects on personality. In recent decades, in treatment of traumatized persons, the co-construction of healing narratives has come to the fore as a key to recovery from trauma. Neuroscience is mapping the neuronal links of the traumatized brain and is examining how distorted mind/brain interactions influence behavior after traumatic experience.  Researchers in many fields argue that trauma induces demonstrable functional changes in the brain and induces, as well, functional changes in the cultural fields responding to traumatic events.  These changes, however, are observed and defined differently in specific fields; normally these fields do not exchange information across disciplinary boundaries.  This conference will invite different scholars to share new research and explore how different definitions and perspectives on trauma can cross clinical and departmental boundaries.  Our goal is to encourage a more nuanced and global understanding of trauma and it effects.  

The departments of Psychiatry, Human Science, and English at George Washington University, in association with the Washington Psychoanalytic Society, will host a set of speakers examining trauma as it is understood in neuroscience, psychoanalysis and the humanities.  Particular attention will be given to papers that examine intersections among cultural, historical, literary, and neuroscientific understandings of trauma narratives.  Keynote speakers include Francoise Davoine and Jean Max Gaudilliere, Cathy Caruth, Jack Lindy, Fred Alford. Moderators experienced in facilitating group discussion across separate disciplines will chair panels and encourage cross disciplinary discussion.

We invite papers that examine intersections among these disciplines as well as papers that present findings from a particular discipline in language understandable to those in others. Submissions may be in the form of either individual papers, which we will group into three-person panels (with each paper presentation to last a maximum of twenty minutes), or proposals from a three-person panel of presenters who would like to coordinate their submission. Abstracts submitted by December 1, 2009, will be acknowledged, and final decisions regarding acceptance will be made by January 20, 2010. Send a 250-word abstract to Natalie Carter at gwu.trauma@gmail.com.

“Mysterious Things”: The 11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / March 4-6, 2010

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2009

The Executive Committee of the Eleventh Annual Graduate Symposium
on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce this call for papers.  The
Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department’s
Women’s History month celebration, is scheduled for March 4-6, 2010.
To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women’s and
gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any
institution and discipline.  The Symposium organizers welcome
individual papers on any topic in the field of women’s and gender
history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually.
Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last
year’s Symposium.

The Symposium Executive Committee is interested in assembling a
geographically, temporally, and topically diverse body of papers.  This
year’s theme, “Mysterious Things,” speaks to a variety of trends that
are currently shaping the field of women’s and gender history.  This is
particularly the case as we march on through a world where things—be
they ideas, objects, or some strange mix thereof—continue to delight,
baffle, liberate, and ruin individuals, as well as global institutions.
Successful proposals could directly explore and build upon the
implications of the moment in Marx’s thought concerning commodities,
wherein what should become inanimate matter actually assumes a
mysterious, yet undeniable kind of life.   Proposals could begin to
chart out this life in a variety of fields—particularly gender and
sexuality—and its effects upon those with whom it comes into contact.
Indeed, gender and sexuality are, themselves, mysterious things, and
proposals could also include any work that seeks to expose and
demystify their strange functions in the everyday life of people and
institutions.  We welcome all proposals that seek to examine and
interrogate any of the nebulous, enigmatic areas included under the
rubric of gender and women’s history.  The choice of theme is
purposefully broad but provocative, inviting perspectives and
reflections from a variety of temporal, geographical, and
inter/disciplinary perspectives.

For this year, the Eleventh Annual Symposium, we are delighted to
announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in his
work: Kevin Floyd, Associate Professor of English, Kent State
University, author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism
(University of Minnesota Press, 2009).

The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the
best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium.  Conference
presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the
on-line proceedings volume. We possess limited resources to subsidize
travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with
limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on
the quality of presenters’ proposals and the availability of funds.

To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method); please send
only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word
abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter,
commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp@gmail.com .  The subject line
of the email must read "Attn: Programming Committee.”  We cannot be
responsible for submissions that do not meet these conditions.

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five
(5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to: Programming
Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History 309 Gregory
Hall, MC 466, 810 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801.

For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chair, T.J. Tallie at gendersymp@gmail.com .

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Between
the National and the Transnational, 1945-1980:

Masculinities
in British and American Literature between World War II and Thatcher/Reagan

The
First of Three International Workshops:

TU Dresden, Germany: 9-11/06/2010

Organizers: Prof.
Dr. Stefan Horlacher (TU Dresden)

Prof. Kevin Floyd (Kent
State University)

As R.W. Connell
and James Messerschmidt have proposed, masculinities have to be studied at a
number of different analytic levels simultaneously, ranging from the most
location-oriented and culturally specific, to the national, to the
transnational. This workshop will encourage scholarly movement in a direction
that both builds on recent work in the field of masculinity studies and moves
past it, toward more comparative kinds of analysis.

In Britain and the US the proliferation of
differentiated masculinities becomes in­creasingly evident during the postwar
period for specifically national and transnational reasons. These include
global waves of decolonization, patterns of migration, the emergence of 'new'
subaltern subjects demanding social, cultural, and political recognition, and
conservative reactions against these developments.

What lines of
interchange and influence in the cultural imagining of masculinity can be
traced between the US and UK during this
period? How do new, postwar forms of masculine identity in Britain and the U.S.
reconstruct imagined national pasts in ways which retain force when global economic
and military hegemony appears to have passed, finally, from Britain to the US? How should we understand
relations between hegemonic and counterhegemonic masculinities in such a
context – and especially the ways in which these relations operate both
similarly and differently in these two countries? 

This workshop is
designed to facilitate a collective scholarly conversation about the ways in
which masculinities in the UK
and the US
converge as well as diverge. How to understand culturally differentiated
masculinities not simply as incommensurate
with each other, but also as operating in
relation to each other? We seek papers that examine, with­in a
transatlantic framework, literary representations of masculinity in the U.S. and/or the U.K. from the post-World War II
period to the period immediately preceding the era of Thatcher and Reagan. We
especially encourage literary analyses that consider or propose connections
between US and UK
masculinities, and that examine those masculinities at simultaneously national
and transnational levels.

Please send an
abstract of no more than 500 words by December 31st 2009 to both Prof.
Dr. Stefan Horlacher (stefan.horlacher@mailbox.tu-dresden.de)
and Prof. Kevin Floyd (kfloyd@kent.edu).

This
conference is funded by the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation and Kent
State University.
Partial subsidies for participants will be available.

A full-length novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth, the Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe is eligible for the Booker Prize. The reputation of the prize is sure to transform the fortunes of the author who receives it. This prestigious prize has been won by four Indians—Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children, 1981), Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things, 1997), Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss, 2006) and Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger, 2008). With the award of this prize to Indians, Indian Writing in English (IWE) has become a force to be reckoned with. The present anthology of critical essays proposes to analyse  the above  Booker-winning novels and the general subject of the Booker and India. The title of the anthology will be The Booker Prize and India. Previously unpublished research papers are invited from scholars.  The following will be considered as falling within the scope of this project::  - papers on any of the four novels- comparative studies involving these novels with the other works by their authors or works by other IWE writers- papers on  other  IWE works that were longlisted or shortlisted for the Booker- general studies on the subject of "the Booker and India " The anthology is in the final stages of preparation, yet some space is still left to accommodate certain papers on Midnight’s Children and The Inheritance of Loss.Papers should be marked by sharp critical acumen and analyze the novels in the light of contemporary critical thought. The deadline for the submission of papers on these novels is November 30, 2009. Papers may be sent to Dr. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal {Senior Lecturer in English, Feroze Gandhi College , Rae Bareli (U.P.), India } at the following email: nilanshu1973@yahoo.com  

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Comics Studies
Conference-Chicago

In conjunction with the
Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2)

April 16-18, McCormick
Place Convention Center

The Comics
Studies Conference invites proposals for scholarly presentations, book talks,
slide talks, roundtables, professional-focus panels, workshops and other panels
centered on sequential art and comics in any form (graphic novels, comic
strips, comic books, manga, web comics, etc.), comics-centric works, or
adaptations of comics materials, genres, or figures into other media for its
first annual meeting, held in conjunction with the Chicago Comic and
Entertainment Expo (C2E2).

Proposals will
be refereed by juried review by the Institute for Comics Studies Conference Board.

Proposals that concern comics produced in or otherwise connected to
Chicago, and proposals by Chicago-area faculty, scholars, and comics professionals
are especially encouraged. 
Professionals
are encouraged to participate as panel members and respondents, and to submit
proposals for book talks.  
Additionally ICS will provide assistance with recruiting professionals
for participation in CSC panels.

The Comics
Studies Conference represents the Institute for Comics Studies’ mission to
promote the study, understanding, recognition, and cultural legitimacy of
comics and to support the discussion and dissemination of this study and
understanding via public venues.

Proposals
deadline: December 1, 2009

Proposal
submission site: http://www.hsu.edu/form.aspx?ekfrm=40054

The Comics
Studies Conference also meets in conjunction with the New York Comic-Con.  Proposals for presentations at CSC-NY
(October 8-10, 2010) are currently being accepted (Deadline June 1, 2010).  Please use the same submission site.

Institute for Comics Studies Comic-Con Conference Series

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WIZARD
WORLD UNIVERSITY: ANAHEIM
April 16-18, Anaheim
Convention Center

The Institute
for Comics Studies is soliciting scholarly proposals for paper presentations,
book talks, slide talks, roundtables, professional-focus panels, workshops, and
other panels centered on comics or comics-related areas of study for Wizard
World University—Anaheim, the academic track of WizardWorld Comic Book
Conventions.

Panels that
include participation by comics industry professionals are especially
encouraged.  ICS will provide
assistance with recruiting professionals for participation in WWU panels.

Wizard World
University represents the Institute for Comics Studies’ mission to promote the
study, understanding, recognition, and cultural legitimacy of comics and to
support the discussion and dissemination of this study and understanding via
public venues.

Proposals
deadline: December 1, 2009

Proposal
submission site: http://www.hsu.edu/form.aspx?ekfrm=40054

ICS offers
academic tracks at other WizardWorld conventions; proposals are currently being
accepted for all Wizard World University academic tracks:

Wizard World
University-Anaheim 2010 (April 16-18; proposal deadline December 1, 2009)

Wizard World
University-Philly 2010 (June 11-13; proposal deadline March 15, 2010)

Wizard World
University-Chicago 2010 (August 12-15; proposal deadline May 15, 2010 )

Please use the
same submission site for all Wizard World University tracks: http://www.hsu.edu/form.aspx?ekfrm=40054

An International Conference on War, Literature & the Arts at the United States Air Force Academy solicits both disciplinary and interdisciplinary presentations on “Representing and Reporting America’s Wars: 1990 to Present.”  The conference seeks a variety of genre submissions, both critical and creative, including literary criticism, journalism, rhetorical analysis, cultural studies, theory, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, film studies, photography, painting, or music.  As an international forum on recent warfare, the conference is designed to bring together a multitude of perspectives, critical approaches, and discourse communities on the topics of warfare and its representations in the Balkans, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.  We encourage submissions that illuminate, challenge, deconstruct, engage with, or create not simply the ‘official’ representations of America’s wars, but the sub-cultures that merit a more nuanced or sophisticated intellectual exploration.  Abstracts should include requirements for audiovisual support, computers, display space, or other technical requirements.

Submissions window: November 1, 2009 through March 15, 2010, to the email listed above.

This scholarly multidisciplinary anthology examines theintersection of baseball and class in American and global cultures. Whileembracing the rich history of themes of class and class conflict in baseballfiction, poetry, and drama, this collection also seeks to extend the discussionthroughout other disciplines, some even far afield from literary studies. Forexample, one could examine the significant spike in costs related to attendinga game at, say, Wrigley Field, and perhaps reach a determination that Cubmanagement prefers a certain type orclass of fan, almost to the point of excluding others. To offer anotherexample, while assimilation of some sort appears as a topic in a number ofbaseball novels, one could readily examine whether this process has become moreof a global than an American phenomenon as clubs begin to set up academies inpreviously-untapped areas. Either of the above examples would lend themselvesto a historical approach as well.

We welcome various theoretical, critical, or historicalapproaches for this volume, but prefer traditional source-based essays overmemoir pieces. Each essay will be evaluated by a peer-review panel.

Extended abstracts of 500 words are due June 1, 2010. Allsubmissions should include a title page with the following information: name,affiliation, mailing and e-mail addresses. Submitting writers should alsoinclude a brief bio. The deadline for first drafts of papers of 4000-8000 wordswill be August 1, 2010. Final manuscripts are due by October 1, 2010.

Writers are also welcome to present in-process or completedversions of their submissions at the 15th Conference on Baseball inLiterature and Culture, which will be held on the campus of Middle TennesseeState University on Friday, March 26, 2010. Presentation at this conference isnot a requirement for submission, though interested authors may likely findthat the conference climate and the opportunity to present to like-minded peerscould result in producing a stronger essay.

PEACE and WAR

An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

The University of Illinois at Chicago

April 16, 2010 

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2009 

This graduate student conference is intended to address some of the problems of defining peace and war in the various disciplines, and to question if or how the ways we conceptualize peace and war have changed in the twenty-first century. 

How do we view “peace” and “war” in the twenty-first century, if our paradigms for conceptualizing both have changed in light of the global “war on terror” and new theories of sovereignty, the nation-state, borders, and transnational identities? How do we convey ideas about states of peace and states of war—throughout history and up to the present day—in rhetoric, literature, visual arts, media, film, criticism, and theory? Is peace a material possibility, and how do we construct topographies of peace, theoretically or artistically?

This one-day conference is intended to provide scholars withthe opportunity to present individual papers from their own research. Graduate students of all disciplines are invited to submit paper proposals and participate in the conference. Proposals from all disciplines and perspectives are welcome.

Keynote Speaker: Michael Allen

Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University, Michael Allen is a scholar of twentieth-century U.S. politics and culture, war, and memory. Professor Allen will present from his book Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

* War’s Representations in Rhetoric, Literature, Film, and Other Media

* Nonviolence as Power

* Utopias / Dystopias

* Religion and Peace / War

* Terrorism / “War on Terror”

* Military-Industrial Complex / Military-Vital Complex

* Just War Theory

* Identity Politics and Peace / War

* Postcoloniality

* Anticolonial Conflicts

* Gender and Peace / War

* Theories of National and Transnational Sovereignty

* Human Rights

* Genocide

* “Enemy Combatants” and Extralegal Incarceration

* Trauma and Shame Theory

* The Body and War

* Science / Technology and War

* Biological Imperatives and War

* Global Capital Flows and Peace / War

Papers should be able to be presented in approximately 15 minutes. Please send an abstract of 300-500 words to Mark Bennett at mbenne2@uic.edu by December 1, 2009.  

The Stephen Crane Society invites papers and proposals for two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA, May 27-30, 2010.

All topics are welcome, but proposals on the following topics are particularly encouraged:

• Crane and war
• Crane and the arts (painting, photography, music, etc.)
• Crane's depiction of the city
• Race and ethnicity in Crane's work
• Issues of gender in Crane's work

Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes.

Please email proposals (approximately 300 words) by January 8, 2010 to
John Dudley
Department of English
University of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD 57069
John.Dudley@usd.edu

Conference details may be found at the American Literature Association web site:
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/index.html

31st Annual Conference February 10-13, 2010
Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association
http://swtxpca.org/
Submission Deadline: 12/1/09, Priority Registration Deadline 12/15/09

Conference Hotel: 

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
505-842-1234

The Food and Culture Area of the Southwest/ Texas Popular and American Culture Association invites panels and papers for their annual conference at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, February 10-13. Please submit abstracts and proposed panels by December 1, 2009. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Cooking/eating and Identity

Culinary Tourism

Food in Literature

Food in Film

Food and Sex in Advertising

Food and Colonialism

Food and the Nation

Foodie Culture 

Eating Disorders and Hunger

Scholars, graduate students, foodies and others interested in the intersection of food and culture are encouraged to submit. Graduate students have the opportunity to submit their work for best graduate paper awards. 

If you wish to form your own food and culture-oriented panel, please contact me with information on your panel topic and a list of participants. Please pass this CFP along to your friends and colleagues.

Please send a short curriculum vitae and 250-350 word abstract or proposal for panels to williamL@purdue.edu or to the physical address below by 1 December 2009. 

Laura Anh Williams, Food and Culture Area Chair

Department of English

P.O. Box 30001, MSC 3E

New Mexico State University

Las Cruces, NM 88003

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Call for Submissions

Journal of
American Studies of Turkey
(JAST)

Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST) is now accepting submissions for the Spring
2010 issue. Deadline for submissions is May 31, 2010.

A semiannual print and on-line publication of the American Studies Association of
Turkey, the Journal of
American Studies of Turkey operates with a blind peer referee system and publishes work in
English by scholars of any nationality on American literature, history, art,
music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography and
related subjects. The Editorial Board particularly welcomes articles which
cross conventional borders between academic disciplines as well as comparative
studies of American and other cultures. The journal also publishes notes,
comments, interviews, book and film reviews.

Journal of American Studies of Turkey has been indexed in the
MLA International Bibliography, Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory,
and the American Humanities Index since the publication of its first issue of
Spring 1995, and in the MLA Directory of Periodicals since 1999.

All manuscripts should follow the MLA Style
and be typed double-spaced (including notes and works cited). The articles
should be approximately 3,000 to 5,000 words in length. Submissions should be
sent as attachment (RTF or DOC) to the e-mail addresses below. No material will
be considered for publication if it is currently under consideration by another
journal or press or if it has been published or is soon to be published
elsewhere.

The copyright of all material published will be vested in the Journal of American Studies of Turkey unless otherwise specifically agreed. This copyright covers exclusive rights of publication on printed or electronic media, including the World Wide Web.

Contributors are
responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material in which they do
not own copyright.

All questions about the journal
should be addressed to:

Nur Gökalp Akkerman and Barış
Gümüşbaş

Department of American Culture
and Literature

Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University

Beytepe-Ankara/TURKEY

e-mail: nurgok@hacettepe.edu.tr

           gumusbas@hacettepe.edu.tr

The JAST homepage, containing back issues and information about the
journal, is available at:

http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/index.html

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Call for Papers

34th Annual Conference of the International Association
for Philosophy and Literature at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada,
May 24th-30th, 2010

Cultures of Differences: National, Indigenous, Historical

For submissions and more information, please visit http://iapl.info/

Deadline for Submissions: Oct. 15th, 2009

"Regarding Iteration: Narratives of Imitation and Innovation," proposals due 12/20/09 

For the past two decades, Louisiana State University’s English Graduate Student Association has hosted the Mardi Gras Conference, a symposium on literature organized and attended by graduate students.  In recent years, the conference has featured keynote speakers as distinguished as Terry Eagleton and Cathy Davidson, and it has attracted graduate presenters from around the world.  Our theme for this year’s conference is “Regarding Iteration: Narratives of Imitation and Innovation.”  We wish to discuss how the interplay of repetition and difference has affected literature throughout history.  The 2010 keynote address will be delivered by Brian McHale, Distinguished Humanities Professor of English at Ohio State University.  We invite our fellow graduate students to present papers, chair panels, and celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Mardi Gras Conference February 11 and 12 of the coming year.  This two-day event also offers attendees the opportunity to enjoy the festivities of Louisiana’s Mardi Gras season.  Email proposals of 250 words or less to mitchfrye@gmail.com.  All submissions are due by December 20, 2009.  Please visit our blog at mardigras2010.blogspot.com for more details.

A Measure of Place: Space in Text and Context

5-7 February 2010, McGill University, Montreal

Historical and fictional figures alike, from Odysseus, to Neil Armstrong, to thousands of twentieth and twenty-first century refugees, have struggled with a persistent and defining question: where can one be in the world? Implied in this question are both the parallel, complementary question of where one cannot be, and the complex determinants behind habitation, belonging, exile, and other spatial states. The English Graduate Students’ Association at McGill University will consider these and other issues at its 16th Annual Conference, A Measure of Place: Space in Text and Context. “Space” is here understood in material, public, domestic, digital, and institutional terms. What are the politics of space in a climate of diaspora, mass-migration, and genocide? What are the relations and tensions between public and private space in a given text, or at a given historical moment? What does it mean to speak of virtual or digital space? How do we live and perform our subjectivities in space, and what are the ways in which those spaces are policed? How do these overlapping spatial considerations find articulation in cultural practices of artistic, religious, and intellectual expression?

While this conference emerges from the field of literary studies, our contention is that answering these questions demands an interrogation of the very intellectual paradigms from which they are asked; thus, we invite contributions dealing with space from a range of historical, political, theoretical, and disciplinary points of view.

Please send abstracts of 300 words or less, together with a short biographical statement of no more than 50 words, to mcgillconference2010@gmail.com by 20 November 2009. You may propose a paper on a particular topic, which will then be grouped into a panel; alternately, contributors may coordinate to propose panels of two or three papers, so long as all relevant abstracts are submitted together, along with a brief description of the panel, by the 20 November deadline.

Topics to consider include:

-aesthetics of space: auditory, visual, tactile, and aromatic environments

-marginal urban spaces ("slums," "ghettos," "vice zones")

-mobility, disability, and space

-lieux de mémoire; space and nostalgia

-human space and/as natural space; ecocriticism

-cartography, geography, travel, tourism

-the geographical construction of identity; national, local, and transnational spatial narratives; space vs. sense of place

-the uncanny and space; powers over space; exceptional bodies and physical space

-ceremonial and performative spaces; public versus private spaces; the making of publics

-controlling spaces (domestic, public); physical and mental imprisonment; solitary spaces

-gendered and sexualized spaces

-liminal or interstitial spaces; heterotopias; outer space; undergrounds/abovegrounds

-textual spaces; author, scribe, and text; digitized textual spaces and cyberspace

-the possibilities and difficulties of representing space in visual and textual media

-spaces of knowledge: the archive, library, clinic, university

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Call for Papers:  WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly) Special
Issue on Market

Guest Editors:  Mara
Einstein and Joe Rollins

Market is both a noun and a verb, a place where we shop
and the act of selling. Market can be Wall Street or Main Street, psychological
and physiological, traditional, viral or stealth. In the current period of
global economic upheaval scholars from all disciplines need to interrogate the
changing meanings, moods, and implications of the market. In this issue of WSQ we seek to consider consumption and
markets anew, from feminist, queer, cultural, and critical perspectives. This
issue will explore urgent questions related to markets. These include, but are
not limited to:  How might we get beyond
the entrenched binaries of male/female, public/private, citizen/immigrant,
producer/consumer that are central to so much thinking about markets?  What does it mean to go shopping in the name
of charitable giving or to purchase “green” products?  How can commodities that are “locally grown”
survive in the face of globalization? How does globalization compare to
colonial trade?  How are these changes
affecting the ways we understand images, brands, icons, labels, and the
meanings these transmit?  How did modern
consumer behavior and iconography develop? 
How have literary texts shaped or challenged our sense of the market?
When did the commodity first appear?  Is
the depression getting you down?

This special issue invites submissions exploring the market
and its many instantiations from a variety of perspectives including theory,
empirical research, literary and cultural studies, as well as creative prose,
poetry, artwork, memoir and biography. 
Suggested topics may include but are not limited to the following:

• The marketing of identities:  sexual, gender, racial, ethnic, political,
religious.

• Markets and bodies: 
the commodification of health and wellness, the roles of markets in
conceptions of pathology, in pharmaceuticals and procedures, in beauty
regimens, obesity and diet, and in ability, youth and aging. The
commodification of body parts and abilities, transnational organ and surrogacy
markets, patents and trade of biological materials.

• Sex and Markets: sex work, trafficking.

• Space and place: 
boundaries of local, rural, and urban, space, nations and border
crossing, globalization.

• History: origins of modern consumerism, histories of
advertising, development of specific consumer goods, imperialism and trade, the
slave trade.

• Texts: marketing of authors, literary depictions of
shopping, publishing conditions, goblin markets.

 • Production: mass
producers and industrialism, craft, locally grown and homespun goods.

• Counter-Markets: 
Freeganism, underground economies, bartering.

 • Transnational
Labor: migrant labor, trafficking, contemporary slavery.

• Families and lifecycle: 
fertility, motherhood, childhood, fathers, care, birth, death.

• Information technologies:  social networking, technologies of taste,
craigslist, google flu, online sales.

• The marketplace of ideas: facts, statistics, economics,
intellectual property, fashion, education, knowledge, Wikipedia.

• Class:  wealth,
poverty, the middle class, and charity, luxury, and sustenance.

• Popular culture: 
marketing the self, iconography and visual culture, celebrity,
advertising, synergy, consumer confidence.

• Stuff: acquisition, clutter, waste, thing theory,
disposal, recycling, environmentalism.

• Vanishing markets: natural space, silence, crisis, risk.

If submitting academic work, please send articles by October
15, 2009 to the guest editors Mara Einstein and Joe Rollins at: WSQMarketIssue@gmail.com. They
should be no longer than 22 pages.

Poetry submissions should be sent to WSQ's poetry editor Kathleen Ossip, at ossipk@aol.com by October 15, 2009. Please
review previous issues of WSQ to see
what type of submissions we prefer before submitting poems. Please note that
poetry submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions
are acceptable if the poetry editor is notified immediately of acceptance
elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please
paste poetry submissions into the body of the e-mail along with all contact
information.

Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ's fiction/nonfiction editor at WSQCreativeProse@gmail.com
by October 15, 2009. Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting
prose. Please note that prose submissions may be held for six months or longer.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the prose editor is notified
immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been
previously published. Please provide all contact information in the body of the
e-mail.

Art submissions should be sent to WSQMarketIssue@gmail.com
by October 15, 2009. After art is reviewed and accepted, accepted art must be
sent to the journal's managing editor on a CD that includes all artwork of 300
DPI or greater, saved as 4.25 inches wide or larger. These files should be
saved as individual JPEGS or TIFFS.

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 31th Annual ConferenceAlbuquerque, NM  February 10-13, 2010Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
http://albuquerque.hyatt.com
Panels now forming for presentations for the new subject area Fashion, Appearance, & Consumer Identity. Fashion, Appearance, & Consumer Identity is concerned with the areas of clothing, historical costume, fashion aesthetics, fashion and appearance, fashion marketing, merchandising, retailing, the psychological/ sociological aspects of dress and cultural appearances, as well as any areas relating to consumption and consumer identity. 

The SWPCA is pleased to announce the Lynnea Chapman King hasaccepted the positions of Area Development & Awards Coordinator.  Lynnea has been with the organization formany years, serves as an award judge, and will be of terrific help to theorganization.    

Register now at the reduced rate and to book your conference hotel room, as space fills quickly.

Graduate students check out our website for our many awards.

Papers and abstracts from all disciplines are welcome.  Innovative and new research in the areas of fashion and consumerism are encouraged! 
Conference Website: http://swtxpca.org 

Send materials by 15 December 2009:
Jessica L. Strubel-Scheiner, PhD, Fashion, Appearance, & Consumer Identity Chair3855 Wemdon DriveDallas, Texas 75220jessica.strubel@gmail.com 

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HORROR:  GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS

2010 NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE POPULAR
CULTURE / AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS

The Horror Area Co-Chairs of the Popular
Culture Association invite interested scholars to submit papers on any aspect
of horror in literature, cinema, television, or general culture for the 2010
PCA National Convention to be held at the Renaissance
Grand Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri.  The conference runs from 31 March to 3 April 2010.

Horror Co-Chairs:

Dr. James Iaccino, The Chicago School of
Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL

Dr. Carl Sederholm, Brigham Young University,
Provo, UT

Kristopher Woofter, Concordia University
& Dawson College, Montréal, QC

If you are interested in being a presenter, please send the following via email:

1) 100-250 word abstract, including title and
full contact information (name, institutional mailing address, phone number[s],
and email).  Please send your
proposal as a Word attachment, and
paste the text in the body of the email.

2) Notification of any audio-visual
requirements for the enhancement of your presentation

3) A current CV

4) Optional at time of proposal, required 2
weeks in advance of the conference date: 
a completed paper of not more than 15 minutes reading time (about 7
double-spaced pages)

If you would like to propose a panel of 4 speakers, or a roundtable discussion panel of between 4-6
participants, please include the following in a single document:

1) Panel or Roundtable title

2) Name and contact information for the Panel
Chair

3) Titles and abstracts of each paper (or
topic in the case of a roundtable)

4) CVs and contact information for each
presenter

Important: All presenters 1) must be
registered members of the PCA and 2)
must register for the conference. 
Information on how to access membership and registration forms will be
sent to you upon acceptance of your presentation.

Two weeks before the conference, your
presentation-length papers are due via email attachment to the designated Area
Co-Chair.  Please bear in mind that
the time allotted for any given panel is 90 minutes.  This allows for one hour of paper presentations followed by
½ hour for discussion with the audience. 
Typically, sessions include four presenters, so presentations can be no
longer than 15 minutes.  These time
limits include any set-up time and audio-visual supplementary material.     

Acceptance of your paper obligates you to
present the paper at the conference. You must also be present at the conference
to present your own work—no “readings by proxy” are allowed.

Submitting the same or various proposals to different subject
areas of the PCA is not allowed.

Please keep in mind that, while presenters
are not permitted to present on more than one panel at the PCA conference,
presenters are permitted to submit
proposals for both a roundtable discussion and a panel. So, if you were
planning to submit a proposal for a paper in another panel, you should still
consider participating in a roundtable discussion.

Audiovisual Needs:

You may choose to enhance your presentation
through audio-visuals.  Each
conference room will be equipped with a DVD player and monitor. We also hope to have PC laptops/notebooks in each
conference room as part of our audio-visual package. Please be aware
that specially produced or “burnt” DVDs may prove to be incompatible in format
with the provided DVD players. 
However, the TVs do have VGA input and cables will be provided, so
please feel free to bring your laptop computer. Mac users should bring their
own adapter cables.

If you have specific days and times at which
you would like to present, please let the designated Co-Chair know at the time
of submission.  Your request will
then be forwarded to the schedulers. 
Please be aware that not all requests can be honored.

The deadline for submission of abstracts
and/or papers is November 30, 2009.

Please note that proposals that are overly
general are difficult to review; accordingly, your abstract should outline your
main argument or research questions, your main points, and your projected
conclusions.

Please send all abstracts, papers, and queries to Kristopher
Woofter at the following email address: pcahorror@gmail.com.

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Call for Participation

THE COMICS ARTS CONFERENCE

WonderCon

San Francisco, California: April 2-4, 2010 (proposal due December 1, 2009)

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Comic-Con International

San Diego, California: July 22-25, 2010 (proposal due March 1, 2010)

We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, and
welcome the participation of academic, independent, and fan scholars.  We welcome professionals from all areas
of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers,
distributors, and journalists.

We also invite scholars and professionals to participate as respondents to presentations.

The Conference is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and
historians who wish to promote or engage in serious study of the medium, and to
do so in a forum that includes the public.

Papers, panels, round tables, book talks, poster presentations, and workshops may take a
critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence).

Proposals due: December 1, 2009, for CAC-WC; March 1, 2010, for CAC-CCI.

CAC submission form: http://hsusurvey.hsu.edu/comicarts.htm

Dr. Peter Coogan

English Department, Webster University

470 E. Lockwood
Ave, St. Louis MO 63119-3194

314-962-7939

comicsartsconference@gmail.com

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Call for Papers:  WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly) Special
Issue on Market

Guest Editors:  Mara
Einstein and Joe Rollins

Market is both a noun and a verb, a place where we shop
and the act of selling. Market can be Wall Street or Main Street, psychological
and physiological, traditional, viral or stealth. In the current period of
global economic upheaval scholars from all disciplines need to interrogate the
changing meanings, moods, and implications of the market. In this issue of WSQ we seek to consider consumption and
markets anew, from feminist, queer, cultural, and critical perspectives. This
issue will explore urgent questions related to markets. These include, but are
not limited to:  How might we get beyond
the entrenched binaries of male/female, public/private, citizen/immigrant,
producer/consumer that are central to so much thinking about markets?  What does it mean to go shopping in the name
of charitable giving or to purchase “green” products?  How can commodities that are “locally grown”
survive in the face of globalization? How does globalization compare to
colonial trade?  How are these changes
affecting the ways we understand images, brands, icons, labels, and the
meanings these transmit?  How did modern
consumer behavior and iconography develop? 
How have literary texts shaped or challenged our sense of the market?
When did the commodity first appear?  Is
the depression getting you down?

This special issue invites submissions exploring the market
and its many instantiations from a variety of perspectives including theory,
empirical research, literary and cultural studies, as well as creative prose,
poetry, artwork, memoir and biography. 
Suggested topics may include but are not limited to the following:

• The marketing of identities:  sexual, gender, racial, ethnic, political,
religious.

• Markets and bodies: 
the commodification of health and wellness, the roles of markets in
conceptions of pathology, in pharmaceuticals and procedures, in beauty
regimens, obesity and diet, and in ability, youth and aging. The
commodification of body parts and abilities, transnational organ and surrogacy
markets, patents and trade of biological materials.

• Sex and Markets: sex work, trafficking.

• Space and place: 
boundaries of local, rural, and urban, space, nations and border
crossing, globalization.

• History: origins of modern consumerism, histories of
advertising, development of specific consumer goods, imperialism and trade, the
slave trade.

• Texts: marketing of authors, literary depictions of
shopping, publishing conditions, goblin markets.

 • Production: mass
producers and industrialism, craft, locally grown and homespun goods.

• Counter-Markets: 
Freeganism, underground economies, bartering.

 • Transnational
Labor: migrant labor, trafficking, contemporary slavery.

• Families and lifecycle: 
fertility, motherhood, childhood, fathers, care, birth, death.

• Information technologies:  social networking, technologies of taste,
craigslist, google flu, online sales.

• The marketplace of ideas: facts, statistics, economics,
intellectual property, fashion, education, knowledge, Wikipedia.

• Class:  wealth,
poverty, the middle class, and charity, luxury, and sustenance.

• Popular culture: 
marketing the self, iconography and visual culture, celebrity,
advertising, synergy, consumer confidence.

• Stuff: acquisition, clutter, waste, thing theory,
disposal, recycling, environmentalism.

• Vanishing markets: natural space, silence, crisis, risk.

If submitting academic work, please send articles by October
15, 2009 to the guest editors Mara Einstein and Joe Rollins at: WSQMarketIssue@gmail.com. They
should be no longer than 22 pages.

Poetry submissions should be sent to WSQ's poetry editor Kathleen Ossip, at ossipk@aol.com by October 15, 2009. Please
review previous issues of WSQ to see
what type of submissions we prefer before submitting poems. Please note that
poetry submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions
are acceptable if the poetry editor is notified immediately of acceptance
elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please
paste poetry submissions into the body of the e-mail along with all contact
information.

Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ's fiction/nonfiction editor at WSQCreativeProse@gmail.com
by October 15, 2009. Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting
prose. Please note that prose submissions may be held for six months or longer.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the prose editor is notified
immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been
previously published. Please provide all contact information in the body of the
e-mail.

Art submissions should be sent to WSQMarketIssue@gmail.com
by October 15, 2009. After art is reviewed and accepted, accepted art must be
sent to the journal's managing editor on a CD that includes all artwork of 300
DPI or greater, saved as 4.25 inches wide or larger. These files should be
saved as individual JPEGS or TIFFS.

***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY***

Call for Papers: "Breaking Borders: Indigenous Peoples Across the Divide"

2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

February 10–13, 2010Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association’s
30th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NMPaper proposals are now being accepted for a panel dedicated to issues of physical and/or social borders, from a Hemispheric and Indigenous perspective.  Proposals should engage border policies and cultures of the Americas and Canada and lend critical analyses to the concepts of Nationalism, Identity and Culture concerning both Indigenous and non-Native perspectives. The deadline for submitting proposals is November 15, 2009.Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations, but topics not included here are welcome and encouraged:

• Defining Mestizo Peoples across the Southern Border
• Indigenous Border Cultures
• Métis/métis Canadian Communities
• Mestizo Peoples of the Southern U.S. (Creoles, Cajuns, Redbones etc)
• Métis Communities of the U.S. Great Lakes
• State and Federal Recognition
• Black/Red/White divisions of identity and tribal identification
• Indigenous Descended Families Across Borders
• American Indian and Mestizo conflicts and camaraderie
• First Nation Peoples and Métis conflicts and camaraderie
• Borders intersections of Identity, Enrollment and Definitions of community

Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to L. Rain Cranford-Gomez or Citlalin Xochime at the contact below. Please forward this email to people who would be interested in participating.  

L. Rain A Cranford-Gomez
Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
ohoyocreole@gmail.com                                                                                                               American Literature and Language ArtsCitlalin Xochime
Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
 citlalin@att.net                                                                                                                 New Mexico State University

The 2010 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque. Join us this year, as a returning or first-time participant, as we celebrate the 31ST year of this regional popular culture conference. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.swtxpca.org/.  

***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY***

Call for Presenters: Native/Indigenous Studies Area:

“Words of Bone, Songs of Blood: Poetry as Theoretical and Historical Dialogue"

2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

February 10–13, 2010

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association's
31st Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM

Proposals for this Panel should engage poetry as a theoretical and historical tool for Indigenous memory, social change, critical dialogue and most specifically the critical engagement of Indigenous Activism on a global, hemispheric, and local level. The panel may present poets as scholars, performance poetry, or scholars as poets and we should expect to perform our poetry as well as critically engage poetry as activism, theory and historical memory. DEADLINE November 15, 2009 .

Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to L. Rain Cranford-Gomez or Citlalin Xochime at the contact below. Please forward this email to people who would be interested in this panel. 

L. Rain A Cranford-Gomez
Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
ohoyocreole@gmail.com                                                                                                                American Literature and Language Arts

Citlalin Xochime
Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
 citlalin@att.net                                                                                                                     New Mexico State university

The 2010 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque. Join us this year, as a returning or first-time participant, as we celebrate the 31ST year of this regional popular culture conference. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.swtxpca.org/.

***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY***

Call for Papers: “Indigenous ‘Deep’ Space:

Indigenous Absence and Presence in Sci-Fi and Comics”

2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

February 10–13, 2009Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association’s
31st Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NMPaper proposals are now being accepted for a panel dedicated to the absence and presence of Indigenous Characters and Cultures in popular Sci-Fi genres. From Star Trek Voyager’s Chakotay to the X-Men’s Danielle Moonstar, the Sci-Fi and Comic genres’ have both capitalized and mined the Indigenous landscape for characters and culture. This panel asks presenters to examine and dialogue the presentation of Indigenous characters and culture in both their presence and absence of their actuality in the popular genres of Sci-Fi and Comics. The deadline for submitting proposals is November 15, 2009.Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations, but topics not included here are welcome and encouraged:

• Indigenous Writers of Sci-Fi genres.
• Indigenous Cultures In Space (Issues of colonization that mirror Indigenous histories in Sci-Fi Deep Space Settings)
• Blue Corn Comics
• Indigenous/Native American descended characters in Sci-Fi
• Indigenous/Native American descended characters in Comic and graphic novels
• Specific Sci-fi T.V. Shows incorporating Indigenous Culture and Characters (episodes of Stargate, Angel, Buffy, Star Trek etc). 
• Western and Indigenous Scientific Perspectives
• Online Comics
• History of Indigenous Characters in Sci-fi or Comics

Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to L. Rain Cranford-Gomez. Please forward this email to people who would be interested in participating. 
L. Rain A Cranford-Gomez
Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
ohoyocreole@gmail.com                                                                                                                                 American Literature and Language Arts
 

The 2010 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque. Join us this year, as a returning or first-time participant, as we celebrate the 31ST year of this regional popular culture conference. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.swtxpca.org/. 

Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area

2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

February 10-13, 20010Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association's
31st Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM
Proposals for both Panels and Individual Papers are now being accepted for the Native/Indigenous Studies Area. Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations, but topics not included here are welcome and encouraged.   DEADLINE December 15, 2009.

• Indigenous Methodologies
• Indians in Higher Education
• Teaching Popular Culture in Native American Studies
• Biography, autobiography, and nonfiction works by and/or about Indigenous people
• Native Literature
• Public Health and Indigenous Peoples
• Popular culture and religion (or, religious popular culture)
• Native peoples across borders: racial/physical/economic/political… etc
• Native representations in popular culture (television, comic books, video/computer games (etc)
• Politics and Native peoples
• Indigenous Women in Social Work
• Indigenous resistance, regional or global (whaling/fishing rights, incarceration issues, sports mascots, etc.)
• More ideas encouraged!

Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to L. Rain Cranford-Gomez or Citlalin Xochime at the contacts below. Please forward this email to people who would be interested in participating.  

L. Rain A Cranford-Gomez
Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
ohoyocreole@gmail.com                                                                                                                                American Literature and Language Arts

Citlalin Xochime
Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
 citlalin@att.net                                                                                                                                                          New Mexico State University

The 2010 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque. Join us this year, as a returning or first-time participant, as we celebrate the 31ST year of this regional popular culture conference. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.swtxpca.org/. 

American Indian/Indigenous Film Area

 Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 31th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM : February 10-13, 2010

The American Indian/Indigenous Film Area is looking for panels, papers, screenings of Indigenous films + discussion, and workshops on topics related to American Indian, First Nations, and Indigenous film. We welcome proposals from all disciplines that examine, utilize, promote, or teach Native/Indigenous film and media are welcome.  The American Indian/Indigenous Film Area is particularly interested in bringing together Native filmmakers and Native/non-Native academics to talk about the burgeoning field of Indigenous Film.

Some topics might include, but are not limited to:
·      Native women filmmakers
·      American Indian/Indigenous Film and/or filmmakers
·      New Voices in Native/Indigenous film and media
·      Needs, Access, and Issues in Native/Indigenous film
·      The outcomes/consequences of using Native films across cultural boundaries and in comparison to other cultural approaches.
·      Teaching American Indian or Indigenous films as part of a non‑American Indian Studies course, such as Humanities, American Studies, or English.
·      Disciplinary and cultural politics as they influence how we read Native film
·      American Indians in Hollywood film
·      Approaches to teaching American Indian film
·      Indian and the Western (this could also apply to how Indigenous people globally are positioned as “Indians” in national “Western” genres)
·      Effects/impacts of Native representations in film/media on Native and non-Native culture
·      Showcasing new work (if you would like to facilitate a panel that screens new work, please do so).  We will need to know in advance what film you wish to have screened, its length, etc. so that we can schedule a screening time followed by a discussion period.

If you have specific ideas for topics, workshops, or panels that are not listed here, please submit those as well.

Native filmmakers, scholars, teachers, students, professionals, and others are encouraged to participate.  Graduate students may wish to submit papers for fellowships and awards.
Further information regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc) can be found at http://swtxpca.org/documents/130.html.  Register early for a discount rate and to reserve space at the conference hotel—rooms fill quickly.

Date and Place: February 24-28, 2009

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
30 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.515.766.6710

Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues.

31st Annual Conference February 10-13, 2010
Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association
http://swtxpca.org/
Deadlines: Priority Submission and Registration: November 1, 2009
Final deadline for Proposals and Panels: December 15, 2009
Final Conference Registration: December 31, 2009 (All participants must be registered by this date).

Please send 100-200 word abstracts to:

M. Elise Marubbio,
Associate Professor & Director Augsburg Native American Film Series
Area Chair, American Indian/Indigenous Film SW/TX PCA/ACA
CB 115
Augsburg College
2211 Riverside Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55454
 (612) 330-1523
marubbio@augsburg.edu

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The goal at NANO is to invigorate humanities discourse by publishingbrief, peer-reviewed reports with a fast turnaround enabled by newtechnologies. We welcome original notes from all fields in thehumanities, particularly literature, film, history, music, rhetoric,philosophy, and art. We also welcome views from other disciplines thatinclude, but are not limited to: psychology, sociology, engineering,various fields of technology, the hard sciences, and business. Eachissue focuses on a special topic designed to encourage newinterpretations and new possibilities. We abjure jargon, pandering, andad hominem responses. Our ethos is brevity, clarity, and elegance. Wedo not accept fiction or poetry; we do accept images, videos, and soundrecordings used in the presentation of notes. NANO welcomes creativereflections, spirited debate, and cross-disciplinary dialogue.

Call for Papers: Volume 1, Number 1
Special Theme: Navigation: How Do We Get Going and Why?Navigation is truly interdisciplinary. It links mind, body,environment, socioeconomics, and cultural practices. Navigationconnects place and process. It is epistemological, but navigation canalso be a mundane everyday activity.
Four basic questions guide the inaugural issue of NANO:
1. What is the relationship between navigation and: walking, bicycling,running, driving, flying, computing, thinking, dreaming, sleeping,working, talking, writing, and eating?
2. Has the nature of navigationrecently changed? Why has it changed? What are the historicalantecedents of the change? And what are the technological andtheoretical implications of such change?
3. What is the future of navigation in terms of land, street,underground, water, space, cyberspace, computer, technology, sport,psychology, cartography, art, food, plot, film, and sound?
4. What arethe relationships between academic and popular navigation, newcomer andnative navigation, and military and refugee navigation?These four questions are meant to guide, not circumscribe.

We welcome notes on a wide range of subjects, including, but not limited to:
Steering wheel, handlebar, rudder
Joystick
Computer key, keyboard
Sight, sound, touch
Graphic interface
Coasting, stopping, starting
Movement, stasis
Means of propulsion, brakes
Underground, underwater
Air, space
Urban, suburban, rural
Swamp, jungle, forest, prairie
Cognitive mapping
Getting Lost
Asking for help
Direction, directions
MapQuest
Google earth
Grid, map
Radar, sonar, radio, compass, GPS
Mathematical navigation
Instinctual navigation
Emotional navigation
Social navigation
Institutional navigation
Textual navigation
Spiritual navigation
Celestial navigation
Terrain, obstacle
Navigating: index, list, narrative
Navigation and evaluation
Navigation and vacation
Cartesian coordinates

Maximum submission length: 2,500 words. Visit our website forsubmission guidelines: http://www.nanocrit.com

Send questions to: editor.nanocrit@gmail.com. Please contact NANO ifyou have an idea for an interview. The editor of NANO is Sean Scanlan,Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa.

DEADLINE: Submit your note to NANO no later than Friday, November 13, 2009. 

CALL FOR PAPERS
AAP ADJUDICATED EMERGING SCHOLARS PANEL

The Association for Asian Performance (AAP) invites submissions for its 16th Annual Adjudicated Panel to be held during the Association for Asian Performance annual conference in Los Angeles, California on Aug 2nd, 2010, which precedes the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference.

Anyone (current and recent graduate students, scholars, teachers, artists) early in their scholarly career or who has not presented a paper at an AAP conference before is welcome to submit work for consideration. To qualify one need not necessarily be affiliated with an institution of higher learning, although this is expected. Papers (8-10 double-spaced pages) may deal with any aspect of Asian performance or drama. Preparation of the manuscript in Asian Theatre Journal style, which can be gleaned from a recent issue, is desirable. Up to three winning authors may be selected and invited to present their papers at the upcoming AAP conference. Paper and project presentations should be no longer than twenty minutes. A $100 cash prize will be awarded for each paper selected, to help offset conference fees. AAP Conference registration fees are waived for the winners, who also receive one year free membership to AAP.

The Emerging Scholars Panel Adjudication Committee is chaired by Dr. Kathy Foley, Editor of Asian Theatre Journal. Selected papers will be strongly considered for publication in ATJ, which is an official publication of AAP and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). Those interested in submitting work for review should mail four (4) copies of their paper or report to:

Kathy Foley, Professor, Theatre Arts
1156 High Street
Theater Arts Center, UCSC
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
and by e-mail attachment to: email:kfoley@ucsc.edu

Deadline for Submissions: February 1, 2010
Winners will be notified by April 15, 2010

A separate cover sheet detailing the author's contact information-address, phone number, and email address (for both academic year and summer holiday) must accompany each submission. The author's name should not appear on the text proper.

AAP is proud to sponsor this adjudicated panel. Not only is it a chance for students and emerging scholars to get exposure and recognition for their work, but it also provides an opportunity to meet and make contacts with others who are interested in similar fields of research.

Please direct any inquiries regarding the emerging scholars panel to Dr. Foley.
To find out about the benefits of becoming an AAP member, please check out our website at http://www.yavanika.org/aaponline

Call for Articles—Alif 31
Submission deadline: May 1, 2010.
Proposal/abstract deadline: October 22, 2009.
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
on
“The Other Americas”

Nearly fifty years ago, Michael Harrington’s The Other America brought much-needed attention to poverty in the United States. Borrowing its title from Harrington’s now-classic study, this issue of Alif similarly expands critical understandings of America beyond its frequent equation with the USA and its official state. This issue explores the less visible “Americas” in the hemispheric sense, considering less well known--but no less central--social, political, artistic, and literary dimensions of the United States, while seeing Canada, Central and South America, and the Caribbean as vital to the conversation. The concepts of pluralism and ethnic literature in the Americas are highlighted and the cross-fertilization of cultures (African, Asian, European, and Native American) explored, all with the aim of providing a more expansive vision of the Americas that includes internal and external cultures of opposition. The issue presents versions and visions and variations of America that seek to interrogate national identity and broaden established definitions while suggesting new modes of inquiry into the United States as a place in conversation with others in the world.

This issue of Alif welcomes articles in the field of American area studies illuminating new trends in historiography, anthropology, arts, sociology, and literatures. Alif invites original contributions on cinema, visual culture, literature, music as well as critical and social theory.

Alif is a refereed, annual, multi-lingual, and multi-disciplinary journal published by the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. Each issue revolves around a theme or a problematic, bringing together the views and approaches of scholars from all over the world.

Alif has been selected by MLA as a distinguished journal and has been made available electronically through JSTOR academic service (www.jstor.org).

Submission instructions: Articles should be between 15 and 30 double-spaced pages (5000-10000 words) and may be submitted in Arabic, English, or French by electronic mail or on a CD together with a hard copy (on Microsoft Word, saved as "rich text format"), together with an abstract of 100 words and a biographical note on the contributor. If the article is in Arabic, the article must be typed on Nashir Sahafi (version 6 or less) or QuarkXpress (version 4 or less) and submitted on a Macintosh diskette, saved as text only (for further clarification contact Alif's office). Articles should be furnished with manual endnotes (not electronic footnotes) or with parenthetical notes.

Alif will appreciate hearing in advance of the projected title of the contributor’s article and receiving a short abstract (300 words) as soon as convenient—and no later than October 22, 2009, in order to plan for a balanced issue. Please include your mailing address, fax and telephone number, and your electronic mail address whenever possible.

Correspondence:
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
American University in Cairo
113, Kasr Al Aini Street
PO Box 2511, Cairo 11511, Egypt
Fax: (+ 202) 2795-7565
Tel.: (+ 202) 2797-5107
E-mail: alifecl@aucegypt.edu
Guest editor (English): Ira Dworkin idworkin@aucegypt.edu
http://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/dept/eclt/alif

The Hispanic Cultural Review (HCR) is an annual publication of George Mason University that seeks to create cultural links between GMU's community, persons, and institutions involved in the creation and diffusion of Hispanic culture in the United States, Latin America, and other nations where Spanish is spoken.

HCR welcomes original, previously unpublished submissions written in either Spanish or English. There are no eligibility requirements though contributions should relate to the culture, literature, art or language of the countries where Spanish language is spoken. The journal accepts essays, interviews, short fiction, poetry, drama, and visual art.

Submission Guidelines:
Essays, including endnotes: 3,000 words
Narrative: 2,500 words
Reviews: 1,000 words
Poetry: 50 lines

No more than two (2) entries may be submitted per category (2 for Essays, 2 for Narrative, etc.).

Each entry must be sent in a separated email, and submissions must be in Word (.doc, .docx) format. We ask that you make the subject of the email the same as the title of your work. Within the body of the email, include your name, the genre of your submission, an approximate word count, and a brief description/synopsis/abstract (50-100 words) of the work.

Published contributions will be included in the print and online version of the Hispanic Cultural Review, available in March 2010.

Email submissions to: hcr@gmu.edu

Deadline for submissions: December 15th, 2009

For more information, please visit: http://www2.gmu.edu/org/hcr/

The 31st Annual
Mid-America Theatre Conference
GOING PUBLIC
Hyatt Regency Cleveland
At the Arcade
March 4-7, 2010

Undergraduate and Graduate students who have not yet presented at a major theatre conference are invited to submit papers for the Emerging Scholars Symposium, two debut panels of the Mid-America Theatre Conference. Papers for the two panels are welcome on any topic in theatre history, theory, or dramatic literature.

Up to three participants will be selected for each panel, and each panelist will have fifteen minutes to deliver his or her paper. Students whose papers are accepted will receive free conference registration, free admission to the conference luncheon, a one-year membership in MATC, and a cash prize of $50. Undergraduate winners will also be paired with a conference mentor.

Papers should be 7-10 pages in length (1750-2500 words), and will be evaluated on their originality, the quality of their writing and research, and their critical/theoretical sophistication. Submissions MUST be received by 15 OCTOBER 2009. Please include the name of your academic institution, mail and email address, telephone number, and a brief bio, and specify whether you are submitting to the Undergraduate or Graduate Debut Panel.

Email COMPLETED papers (no abstracts, please) as Microsoft Word attachments to:

Stacey Connelly
sconnell@trinity.edu

and

Scott R. Irelan
scottirelan@augustana.edu

The Mid-America Theatre Conference is held every March at a mid-western city (e.g. Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, St. Louis, Kansas City), with symposia in Theatre History, Directing, Pedagogy, and Playwriting. Graduate students are welcome to submit proposals either to these forums or to the Emerging Scholars Symposium. All proposals are refereed. Because of its small size, MATC serves as an ideal setting for graduate and undergraduate students to begin to share their work with and get feedback from established scholars. Membership in MATC also includes a subscription to Theatre History Studies, a leading journal in the field.

Call for Papers
National Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies
Seattle, Washington (April 7-10, 2010)

Environmentalism and Aesthetics in Chicano/a History

During the 1800s, Anglo-American explorers and settlers justified their
expropriation of Southwestern lands with the argument that Indians and
Mexicans in the region were incapable of taking proper care of the
region’s rich natural resources. Such discourses manifest themselves
today in the popular perception that Mexican-Americans and Mexican
immigrants lag behind Anglos when it comes to ecological awareness, but
as commentators like Devon Peña and Laura Pulido note there is in fact a
complex environmental ethic that permeates Chicano/a history. This panel
will examine the role that aesthetics has played in creating, debating,
and reproducing green politics within Mexican-American communities since
1848. Papers can address any form of Chicana/o cultural production
(visual arts, fiction, poetry, music, dance, etc.) and its relationship
to environmentalism.

Possible topics could include:

· Chicano movement art and environmentalism

· Landscape and the /corrido /tradition

· Hispano art and its relation to land use struggles in New Mexico

· Mexican-American art as a challenge to the dominant environmental movement

· Ecological thought in the work of Chicana feminists such as Cherrie
Moraga or Amalia Mesa-Bains

· Art, immigration, and the environment in the 21st century

In order to make the October 15th NACCS deadline, please submit an
abstract of no more than 300 words to randyo at umd.edu
by October 12th . (Questions can be directed to
the same address.) Please include your complete name, institution, email
address, and any A/V requirements.

REMINDER: October 15th deadline for abstracts for the Northeast Victorian Studies Association conference, "FIGHTING VICTORIANS: DISUNION, POLEMIC, CONTROVERSY," Princeton Univ., April 16-18, 2010. Keynote panel: Anna Clark, Elaine Hadley, and Alex Woloch.

You can find a PDF of the cfp at the NVSA website: http://www.nvsa.org

I am also including the text of the call below. Please consider submitting an abstract by October 15th for what promises to be a no-holds-barred event.

Best,
Gage McWeeny

Gage McWeeny, Assistant Professor of English
The Oakley Center for the Humanities & Social Sciences
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267

Phone: (413) 597-4590
Email: gmcweeny@williams.edu

The peace, that I deem`d no peace, is over and done.

--Alfred Tennyson, 1855

CFP: NVSA 2010

FIGHTING VICTORIANS: DISUNION, POLEMIC, CONTROVERSY

Princeton University: April 16-18, 2010

NVSA website: http://www.nvsa.org

NVSA solicits submissions for its annual conference; the topic this year

is FIGHTING VICTORIANS.

The conference will feature a keynote panel including Anna Clark,

Elaine Hadley, and Alex Woloch, and visits to Special Collections at the

Firestone Library and the Princeton Art Museum.

This conference will take up the nature and significance of

Victorian fighting and disunion, from international warfare to

peevishness. What did the Victorians think was worth fighting about?

Is there a specifically Victorian culture of argument? In what ways did

the Victorians value disagreement and controversy? “The age of

equipoise” saw more than its fair share of dust-ups, imbroglios, scraps,

and battles. Rather than enumerating the varieties of Victorian

belligerence, we seek papers that will reflect upon the ways Victorians

experienced, valued, and represented fighting, disagreement, and other

modes of disunion. What forms of debate and disagreement did the

Victorian public sphere promote or exclude? What are the forms of

solidarity and separation not only imagined by British social,

political, and evolutionary theory, but also experienced as part of the

development of empire or national movements? What is the force of

dissension in artistic, literary or political rivalries and movements?

What are the sites, genres, and modes of Victorian fighting? What are

the forms of representation, visual or textual, most suited to

representing violence or controversy? Finally, how do we Victorianists

argue now? Do we argue now?

While specificity is welcome and encouraged, the program committee

is not looking simply for papers describing particular instances of

violence. We are especially eager to see presentations that make a

claim about the nature, conception, or representation of disunity or

violence in the period.

* * *

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

-Oscar Wilde, 1891

Arts of Combat

-Fights in literature: the novel, poetry, drama

-Warfare in the fine arts

-Literary forms and social interventions; novel arguments

-The emotions of Victorian disunion and fighting

-The styles and affects of refusing to argue: peevishness, grudges,

funks, the slow burn, the silent treatment, envy, ressentiment

-Accommodation and appeasement

-The belligerence of aesthetic movements

Does the boxer hit better for knowing that he has a flexor longus and

a flexor brevis?

-Carlyle, 1831

Thoughtful Belligerence

-Cultures of Victorian argument

-Styles of pugilism: bare knuckle, street fighting, boxing

-Fighting words: diatribes and other rhetorics of disunion

-Belligerent thoughts, belligerent thinkers

-The genres of Victorian fighting: polemic, manifesto, dialogue, debate

-The concept of struggle

-Rules of engagement: the Queensberry rules, duels, fencing

-Victorian fights and contemporary theories of struggle and debate

Say not the struggle nought availeth,

The labour and the wounds are vain.

-Arthur Hugh Clough, 1855

What is Worth Fighting For? / What is Fighting Worth?

-The Victorian public sphere: liberalism and the culture of argument

-Forms of dialectic

-Political fights: Chartism, Reform, Abolition

-Class: identity and struggle

-Religious schism: Dissent, The Oxford Movement, conversion

-Solidarity and separation: forms of antisociality or social enmity, the transcendence of social bonds

-Literary forms of solidarity and disunion: the novel and character space, lyric poetry and intersubjective tension

-Dissension as style in the visual arts

-Rivalries: literary, political, artistic, athletic

-Disciplinary formation: competition among the faculties, literature

versus science, word versus image

-Fighting as a way of life: evolution as struggle, struggle and the field of culture

-Break-ups: empire and disunion, divorce, romantic break-ups, fallings out

-What do Victorianists argue about now? How do we argue?

. . . as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.

-Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach” 1867

Fight Sites: Spaces of Disunion, Violence, Controversy

-More is less: one nation or two, Unionism and / or nationalism

-Imperial violence

-International warfare

-Civil war

-Memories and fantasies of war

-Domestic violence: gender and the home

-Venues of fighting and controversy: the periodical press, lecture halls, the university, the boxing ring, the streets

* * *

Proposals (no more than 500 words) by Oct. 15, 2009 (e-mail submissions

strongly encouraged):

Professor Gage McWeeny, Chair, NVSA Program Committee,

(gmcweeny@williams.edu)

English Department, Williams College, 85 Mission Park Drive,

Williamstown, MA 01267

Please note: all submissions to NVSA are evaluated anonymously.

Successful proposals will stay within the 500-word limit and make a

compelling case for the talk and its relation to the conference topic.

Please do not send complete papers, and do not include your name on the

proposal.

Please do include your name, institutional and email addresses, and

proposal title in a cover letter. Papers should take 15 minutes (20

minutes maximum) so as to provide ample time for discussion.

The Coral Lansbury Travel Grant ($100.00) and George Ford Travel Grant

($100.00), given in memory of key founding members of NVSA, are awarded

annually to the graduate student, adjunct instructor, or independent

scholar who must travel the greatest distance to give a paper at our

conference. Apply by indicating in your cover letter that you wish to

be considered. Please indicate from where you will be traveling, and

mention if you have other sources of funding.

To join NVSA, or to renew your membership for 2009-2010, please return

the form below to Prof. Joan Dagle at the address indicated on the form.

Jonah Siegel,

President, NVSA

Department of English

Rutgers University

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

jsiegel@rci.rutgers.edu

phone: (732) 932-7679/fax: (732) 932-1150

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Dept. of English, Rhode Island College

Providence, RI 02908

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Studies Association. I have enclosed a check to NVSA for ___ $15 in U.S.

dollars (regular membership) or ___$10 (student)

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Native American Literature
The 41st Annual College English Association Conference
March 25-7, 2010 – San Antonio, Texas

Conference Theme: Voices
“And in my voice most welcome shall you be.” As You Like It 2:4.87

The Native American Literature panel at CEA welcomes submissions on any aspect of Native American Literature, including, but not limited to, papers on individual authors, Native American literary separatism, the Native American Renaissance, native sovereignty, indigenous rhetorics, etc. Of particular interest will be papers analyzed from an indigenous perspective or worldview.

Submit proposals online at www2.widener.edu/~cea.

Abstracts for proposals should be between 300 and 500 words in length and should include a title. Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2009.

If proposing a panel with multiple speakers, organizers must create user IDs and submissions for each participant. If you are willing to serve as a session
chair or respondent for a panel other than your own, please indicate so on your submission.

Though we prefer to receive proposals through the conference database, CEA will accept hard copy proposals postmarked starting August 21, 2009, but no later than October 21. Include the following information for each proposed
participant:

Name and institutional affiliation
Mailing address
Email address
Title and abstract of 200-500 words
Audio-visual equipment needs
Special needs

Address paper submissions to:
Karen Lentz Madison, CEA Program Chair
331 Kimpel Hall
Department of English
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Call for Papers for thematic issue in Lisa e-journal:

Identity in the face of alterity : the image of the Other in literature and the visual arts in 17th and 18th-century England.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, as the English became increasingly engaged in commercial or exploratory voyages to such distant places as the Caribbean islands, China, India or even the territories of the South Seas, they came into contact with people from different cultures whom they saw as so many figures of otherness. On a national scale, the quest for a distinctive identity was marked by questions of a religious or political nature, by the progressive distinction between the private and the public spheres or by the opposition between the masculine and the feminine, to take but a few examples. The figure of the Other raises many philosophical, ethical and cultural questions, as otherness may be defined in terms of culture, ethnicity, geographical origins, social background or sexual identity.
As an object of both scientific observation and fantasies, the Other seems to be a rather elusive idea whose definition deserves careful consideration. As early as the 17th and 18th centuries, the Other was used as an instrument for measuring sexual, social or cultural differences and his or her representations were often based on the need to draw a clear-cut separation between « us » and « them ». Thus, the way the Other was perceived cannot be dissociated from one's own concerns about one's own identity. This begs the question of how genuine and objective the English representations of the Other actually were, while simultaneously throwing light on the links between illusion, fiction and reality.
The encounter with the Other which resulted from the voyage, as well as the « fictionalization » of the Other in literature, and his or her various representations in the visual arts enabled the English to define their own identity with greater accuracy, by looking at, comparing themselves with, or pitting themselves against the Other. We would like to examine the way the dialectics between the Self and the Other depended on an imaginary vision of both otherness and identity, and how it played upon existing prejudices while recycling, reconstructring or re-inventing racial, social or cultural stereotypes. The relationship with the Other will be considered as a form of exchange, encounter or confrontation, which gave rise to a wide array of different reactions ranging from rejection and denigration to integration and even idealisation. The way the figure of the Other was shaped and altered so that it conformed to the real or imaginary expectations of the Self will also be considered. All kinds of theoretical approaches (such as Orientalism, post-colonialism, feminism, historicism, semiology or cultural history) are welcome with a view to studying the representation of the other in 17th and 18th century England from many different perspectives.

Possible areas for consideration might include, but are not restricted to:
– The presence and/or production of « contact zones » (in the words of Mary Louise Pratt) between the Self and the Other (direct encounters or representations) and the significance of such zones.
– The exoticism of the Other (local customs, rites, costumes, « folklore »).
– The representation of otherness in material culture: exotic objects, objects from the Empire and the colonies, chinoiseries, the Indian and Turkish tastes.
– The issue of territorial identity: foreign lands as opposed to the national territory.
– National identity and political or religious issues.
– The figures of « domestic » otherness (gender, classes, regions, etc...)
– Otherness and Language: the language of the Other.
– Lending one's voice to the Other: how to « write », « express » and « stage » otherness.
– Hybridity and hybridation: « the preservation of the Self » as opposed « to going native » in the words of Jonathan Lamb.

Please send your proposals (20 to 50 lines), along with a short bio-bibliographical note, to Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding (valayrac@hotmail.com) or Mickael Popelard (mickael.popelard@wanadoo.fr) before 1 December 2009 (the deadline for completed articles is 1 May 2010). Please follow the norms for presentation indicated on the LISA e-journal website (http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/lisa/presentFr.php?p=1).

L’identité à l’épreuve de l’altérité : l’image de l’Autre dans la littérature et les arts visuels anglais aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

Aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, les voyages de découverte et les voyages commerciaux qui conduisirent les Anglais aux Antilles et aux Caraïbes, en Chine, en Inde ou encore en terres australes, amenèrent ces derniers à rencontrer d’autres cultures et à confronter leur propre image à ces figures de l’altérité. A l’échelle nationale, la recherche identitaire fut marquée par les questions religieuses et politiques ou encore par la progressive distinction entre sphère privée et sphère publique et l’opposition féminin/masculin pour ne prendre que quelques exemples. L’image de l’Autre fait surgir de nombreuses questions philosophiques, éthiques ou culturelles : on peut en effet considérer l’altérité en fonction de sa culture, de son appartenance ethnique ou de ses origines géographiques, ou encore de son identité sociale ou sexuelle.
Objet d’observation tout autant que de fantasmes, l’Autre semble donc afficher des contours définitoires fluctuants sur lesquels il conviendra de s’interroger. Dès les XVII et XVIIIe siècles, l’Autre servit d’instrument de mesure des différences identitaires, sociales, sexuelles ou culturelles, et nombreuses furent les représentations qui consignèrent le besoin d’établir une frontière, imaginaire ou pas, entre « eux »et « nous ». La perception de l’altérité semble en effet indissociable d’une projection des préoccupations identitaires du Soi, ce qui pose la question de l’authenticité des représentations anglaises de l’Autre et amène ainsi à considérer l’articulation entre illusion, fiction et réalité.
La rencontre avec l’Autre au cours des voyages, mais aussi la « fictionnalisation » de l’image de l’Autre en littérature et ses diverses représentations visuelles dans les arts picturaux, graphiques ou plastiques, ont permis aux Anglais d’affiner leur propre définition de l’identité nationale, par le jeu du regard, de la mise en miroir ou de l’opposition. On s’intéressera ainsi à la façon dont la dialectique du Soi et de l’Autre se déploie à travers un imaginaire de l’altérité mais aussi de l’identité, joue avec les préjugés, construit ou recycle des stéréotypes raciaux, sociaux, culturels, ou bien invente et codifie les attributs de l’Autre. On envisagera les rapports à l’Autre sur le mode de la rencontre, de l’échange, ou bien de la confrontation, de la peur, voire de l’affrontement pour expliquer les réactions face à l’altérité : dénigrement, rejet, aliénation, ou bien idéalisation et intégration. On cherchera à montrer comment la figure de l’Autre a pu être modelée, voire modélisée pour correspondre aux attentes, réelles ou fantasmées, du Soi. Les analyses de l’image de l’Autre pourront se prêter à des approches théoriques variées (orientalisme, théories coloniales, féminisme, historisme, sémiologie ou histoire culturelle par exemple) afin de multiplier les points de vue.

Parmi les multiples pistes de réflexion possible, on pourra s’intéresser, à titre indicatif, aux suivantes :
- Présence ou mise en place de « zones de contact » (Mary Louise Pratt) entre le Soi et l’Autre (rencontres directes ou représentations) et leurs significations.
- L’exotisme de l’Autre (coutumes, rites, costumes, « folklore »)
- La représentation de l’altérité dans la culture matérielle : objets exotiques, objets de l’empire et des colonies, chinoiseries, turqueries, goût indien
- La question de l’identité territoriale : l’Ailleurs et l’espace national
- Identité nationale et dimensions politiques ou religieuses
- Figures « domestiques » de l’altérité (genre, classe, région)
- Altérité et langage : la langue de l’Autre
- Prêter sa voix à l’Autre : comment « écrire », « exprimer » et mettre en scène l’Autre
- Hybridité et hybridation : la préservation du Soi pour reprendre les termes de Jonathan Lamb (the Preservation of the Self) ou bien « l’indigénisation » (going native)
Merci d’envoyer vos propositions d’articles (entre 20 et 50 lignes), accompagnées d’une courte bio-bibliographie, à Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding (valayrac@hotmail.com) ou Mickael Popelard (mickael.popelard@wanadoo.fr) avant le 1er décembre 2009 (les articles seront à envoyer avant le 1er mai 2010 ). Les auteurs sont priés de respecter les normes de présentation indiquées sur le site de La revue LISA (http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/lisa/presentFr.php?p=1).

Recently, there has been a great deal of work by those discussing political agency and organization on the decline of the nation-state and its displacement by non-state and sub-state actors. Writers on the left, from David Harvey looking at the global city to Hardt and Negri working on political mobilization to the American Studies scholar John Carlos Rowe looking at "post-Nationalism" see the nation state as, increasingly, one factor among many rather than as the central factor in political and economic organization. This change in the role of the nation-state, it is argued, is also leading to a change in the nature of political organization. The party, once the locus of revolutionary desire, seems to be changing significantly as a spate of NGOs and transnational corporations increasingly take on the role of political actor. Both within nation-states and at the level of international party imaginaries, the party and partisanship are taking on a different role. We see, for example, the 2004 Democratic National Convention speech of then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama, when he told the audience at the Democratic National Convention, "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America... there is the United States of America." Likewise, French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempted to create the illusion of a non-partisan world by recruiting members of the French Left, such as the economist Jacques Attali, into his cabinet. The Leninist vision of the party as a nexus of action and a starting-point for praxis appears to face displacement by a concept of the party as an ideology-disseminating and fund-raising apparatus, which can be rhetorically sloughed off when the need is felt.

At the same time, nationalist parties, national religious parties, and peasant and indigenous movements are as active as ever. If the role of the party is losing ground, there nevertheless seems to be a retention of interest in institutions that can enable and promote collective activity. What were once derided as "issues politics" and "identity politics" have proven to create real political allegiances that do not adhere to a party structure, mobilizing groups toward political action. Using a different but related tactic, autonomous social movements are trying to re-envision the role of people in politics, trying to shift the locus of action to the humans involved in political practice. Parties continue to be active in national and international politics, but at the same time, people are increasingly searching for and implementing alternatives to the party structure. These alternatives can entail ground-up advocacy and activism, networked through various channels, or they can entail measures such as the Washington Consensus that aim to control the political environment through economic sanctions and privatized governance. Both of these forms of governmentality aim to circumvent the state and the party systems.

The Polygraph Editorial Collective would therefore like to assemble a collection of essays that confront the direction "the party" and parties have taken since the large social and economic shifts of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. We want to look at both the concept of the party and its relevance or lack of relevance in an increasingly globalized society. The party had liberatory aims at one point; have those evaporated or migrated elsewhere, or do they continue to have force within the party and within global politics? Is the party still a category with utopian potential or have parties been rendered into the propaganda wings of international capital? Whither party politics?

Possible topics for this issue include:
* politics without parties
* parties and capital
* the problematic of party affiliation and party identity
* parties and identity/"identity" politics
* alternatives to the party structure
* the concept of "party" in late capitalism
* the relationship of the party to the nation-state
* anti-governmental movements and organizations
* the rise of NGOs
* the left/right division
* parties and religion/religious parties
* movements vs. organizations
* parties/organizations and exclusion
* divisions and splits within parties
* parties and utopias

Polygraph welcomes work from a variety of different disciplines, including political theory, critical geography, cultural anthropology, political economy, political theology, and area studies. We also encourage the submission of a variety of formats and genres: i.e. field reports, surveys, interviews, photography, essays, etc.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE
December 31, 2009

ISSUE EDITORS
Alexander Greenberg
Amalle Dublon

CONTACT
partiescfp@gmail.com